Genre

Bildungsroman (coming-of-age); epistolary; drug-alcohol

Narrator

Alice

Point Of View

Alice's first-person diary entries

Tone

Alternating between naïve and world-weary

Tense

Immediate past tense

Protagonist

Alice

Antagonist

Drugs; society as a whole

Foreshadowing

Alice's nightmares about maggots and worms eating her grandparents' corpses materialize in her overdose-driven hallucinations.

Climax

Alice is freed from the mental hospital and decides to commit her life to staying clean and helping others

Falling Action

The epilogue reveals that Alice died of an overdose several weeks after her last diary entry.